The Supreme Court has recently stayed the proceedings before the trial courts in connection with violence that erupted during the 2021 state assembly polls in West Bengal.
Former TMC MP and BJP leader Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday drew a parallel between the prevailing state of affairs in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali and the violence in Nandigram during the erstwhile Left Front regime in the state.
Union Minister Annapurna Devi has been named as the convenor of the high-level committee. Other members of the panel are Pratima Bhowmik, BJP MPs Sunita Duggal, Kavita Patidar, Sangeeta Yadav, and Brijlal.
In a recent incident in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal, agitated villagers set fire to the poultry farm belonging to Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shivprasad Hazra.
The protest comes amid a horrific video of two women being paraded naked on a road by a group of men in Manipur has been shared widely on social media, drawing massive condemnation and calls for action.
Accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of the violence prevailing violence in the state, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday said that BJP will not rest until the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is removed from power in the state.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP, Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Wednesday left for West Bengal on Wednesday along with three others to inquire into the Bengal violence that erupted during the gram panchayat elections.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that 133 individuals who feared for their lives sought refuge in Assam's Dhubri district amid violence in West Bengal during panchayat polls.
West Bengal State Election Commission on Sunday said that as many as ten people had lost their lives in the violence that broke on the Panchayat Polls day in the state.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur on Sunday expressed deep concern over the election violence in West Bengal on the day of the Panchayat Polls.
In a letter written to the West Bengal State Election Commission, the state unit of the BJP has called for various confidence-building measures ahead of the Panchayat polls.